CSE 131

4.0

Bruce Hemingway

• Digital Photography: A Basic Manual, Horenstein
• The Photographer's Eye, Freeman

Covers the fundamentals of digital photography, including computational imaging; the elements of photographic composition and design; and the future of internet-enabled photography.

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At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to: 

• Identify the elements that make a good photographic composition, and apply those to their own work.
• Improve their own digital photography by proper understanding and use of performance boundaries of the equipment.
• Relate classic film photography issues to modern digital imaging techniques.
• Show proficiency in digital image post-processing software.
• Understand the uses of Social Photography and web and cloud-based services such as Google Plus, Picasa, and Flickr.
• Select the right digital camera for their use.

• the invention of photography in the 19th century
• the social implications of photography
• basics of lens design and optics
• understanding of perspective
• development and construction of the modern CCD and CMOS sensors.
• digital image processing techniques in the modern digital camera
• the design of a photograph by the photographer—the use of design elements such as line, color, pattern, texture, and light to compose outstanding images